Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident. Based on a play by David Lindsay-Abaire.
Directed: John Cameron Mitchell
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart and Dianne Wiest
What we think: Anyone with children will surely feel the pain in this film, its disheartening right to the core.
It’s emotionally draining but the performances are brilliant from Kidman and Eckhart, its a must watch.
Set eight months after the death of their son Becca and Howie are trying to come to terms with him not being in their lives anymore, both have a different way of dealing with it.
Howie prefers to relive the past by watching videos on his phone late at night, while Becca wants to eradicate his memory altogether by giving away his clothes, removing his paintings from the fridge and cleaning his room, so all traces are gone.
The pair try to seek solace in counselling, sitting with other couples who regale their grieving process, it doesn’t sit well with Becca but Howie tries to stick with it. He even becomes close, too close in fact, with one of the other wives, when he realises that the bond he has with his own wife might be slipping away.
Their cause is not helped by the fact that Becca’s slightly rebellious sister falls pregnant or that her mum, Nat, is still hurting from the death of her own son, a drug user, which only angers Becca more when Nat compares the two.
The cause of the death is slowly discovered when Becca spots the culprit on a school bus, and its revealed that young Jason (Miles Teller) was behind the wheel of the car that hit her son. The pair engage in secret meetings, as if having some kind of affair but simply sit to talk, and reflect on each others lives and the accident itself. They are touching moments and well acted.
Pain never goes away, its something that is carried around with you forever, people seem to tread lightly around you, and life will never be the same again.
Its certainly a tear jerker, there are plentyof moments to choose from in this but for me the film is all about the acting, and there is much to enjoy with it.
Kidman is at her ever present best, and Eckhart who was hand picked by Kidman to be her leading man is sublime and yet explosive in a number or highly charged scenes.
The ending shot is one of hope, amid the shattered pieces of their lives scattered all over you feel that they might have crossed the road to a happier future.
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Rating:
(4/5)
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